NI Symphony Series BRASS Review

Overview

Native Instruments' just released a brand new library entitled "Brass Ensemble Symphony Series". The product is designed for NI's Kontakt sampler. It is possibly the best sounding brass product on the market and can be used in a variety of ways within your productions. Check out this full Video review from Numonics on our DJbooth.net Production Team.

Review Video & Demo

Setup & First Impressions

Native Instruments' just released a brand new library entitled "Brass Ensemble Symphony Series". The product is designed for NI's Kontakt sampler. It is possibly the best sounding brass product on the market and can be used in a variety of ways within your productions. Check out this full Video review by Numonics for all the details of this new library tool for production.

Conclusion / Recommended For

To conclude, Native Instruments accomplished what so many other companies have failed to do in the past: Create a brass virtual instrument that sounds like the real thing.

Pros

Realism - Sounds like actual brass instruments

Articulations - Multiple articulations for all of the brass instruments

Interface is very clean and simple to understand

Mixer and Effects within Brass Ensemble are very useful for creating unique sounds.

Cons

Native Instruments continues to expand its production and music creation software, KONTAKT with a new horn instruments add-on called Symphony Series BRASS. NI's new Symphony Series BRASS comes in two flavors called the BRASS ENSEMBLE that will give a nice full harmony of horns playing together, and the BRASS SOLO which has singular horn player sounds for music creation. BRASS ENSEMBLE and BRASS SOLO can be purchased separately or as a bundle called BRASS COLLECTION for a package deal price. Check out the quick video, links, and more after the jump.

Native Instruments has released the newest addition to it's Symphony Series for Kontakt sampler. Symphony Series WOODWIND Collection features recordings of sound of a 36-piece woodwind orchestra comprising flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone, and bass wind (contrabassoon and bass clarinet) sections. Check out the quick press release, links, and videos after the jump.

Native Instruments has officially announced their three new MIDI Keyboard controllers for music makers that will work flawlessly in conjunction with all of sounds and instruments in the brand new Komplete 10 software suite. The NI Komplete Kontrol S-Series keyboards will come in 25-key S25, 49-key S49, and 61-key S61 variants with different sizes and price points to appease different users.

Native Instruments has released lots of new Symphony Series Instruments for the Kontakt sampler. The Symphony Series Collection features recordings of many different types of instruments and chords that allow producers to pull off some extraordinary symphony sounds right on their computer. Check out a few of the Symphony Series videos to see a demo of the collection first hand.

Native Instruments keeps releasing lots of nice new sounds on their Kontakt music production software giving users lots of versatility. They recently came out with the Strings and Percussion suites that give users the best string instruments sounds and drum sounds, and now they are at it again. This time they are bringing users a new software add-on called West Africa that will accurately reproduce the trance-like sounds of the West African cultures. For $120, these new sounds will add that much more flavor to the beats you are making. Details and Press Release inside.

Native Instruments has released the newest addition to it's Symphony Series for Kontakt 5. Symphony Series-String Ensemble features recordings of a 60-piece string orchestra which can be used in your productions. String Ensemble has separate instruments for violins, violas, cellos and basses as well as an Ensemble mode that utilizes all instruments.

For the producers and musical performers out there that want authentic and expertly engineered drum sounds need look no further. Introducing Native Instruments Abbey Road Modern Drums software that is designed to work with the free Kontakt Player and the Kontakt 4 sampler to arrange and produce music with LIVE RECORDED drum sounds. (Video and links inside).